On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 03:57:56PM -0600, Mark Tapley wrote:
> Enrico wrote:
> >Now this is interesting. Where can you get it? Last I remember xStep was
> >purchase by Sun when Next folded , wasn't it?
> >
> >e.
>
> Black Hole Inc., http://206.67.57.106/ Is advertising both OpenStep 4.2
> (NeXT/Intel/Sparc) and NeXTStep 3.3 (Intel/NeXT or HP PA/Sparc). Prices are
> in the hundreds of dollars, though. Apple may also still be selling it, I
> have not looked there.
> - Mark
I have NEXTStep 3.3 for Intel and NeXT systems, and these days it's a
real pain in the ass to build a system that it can run on. It only
supported about three different flavors of any type of hardware, and
only two soundcards if I remember correctly. SCSI is a nightmare.
But it really does look sweet and feel responsive when you get it
to work. Recommended (read: known to work) hardware includes
* #9 GXE 64 Pro video card
* Adaptec AHA-1542C SCSI card
* Toshiba 4-speed SCSI CD-ROM
* SCSI hard disk
* Pro Audio Spectrum or Sound Blaster 16 (the original).
* 3Com 3C509 10Mbit ethernet.
Basically anything else will fail to work in some obscure or painful
way, though your milage may vary. I never ever got ATAPI CD-ROM to
work right, though theoretically a few varieties are supported.
You can still download Y2K patches for NeXTSTEP 3.3 from Apple's tech
library, formerly NeXTANSWERS.
It's wonderously nice to run NeXTSTEP on a system with a 200+MHz
cpu and 64+MB of RAM, but it's almost preferrable to stick to black
hardware and save yourself the woe.
-Seth
Received on Wed Nov 15 2000 - 17:07:56 GMT